Features
As well as the Charts, the magazine included interviews with pop stars of the day as well as centre pin-ups. Songwords to current pop songs were also featured. Other features were Single and album reviews, competitions and a letters page. Colomnists were used also throughout the magazine with their own pages. These were sometimes by well known people in the industry such as producer Pete Waterman or DJ Bruno Brookes or by staff writers who went under pseudonyms such as 'Lola Lush' (a glamorous woman with bitchy comments) or 'Snabber' (a depressive dog who answered the letters). At the end of each year, the magazine would run a reader's poll of the top pop acts of the year. These would include best group, best single and most fanciable pop star among others. Number One was the first magazine to champion pop group Take That and featured them many times on the cover in 1991 before they became famous. Ultimately, the magazine didn't survive to see the group achieve their first top 10 hit.
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